Army & Navy: Colman's Court

In a bare frame office building at
Selfridge Field, Mich., this week a trial board of ten Air Force
colonels convened a general court-martial to hear charges against
Colonel William T. Colman, former commander of the field (TIME, May
17).

The charges involved five of the Articles of War. Specifications: drunk
and disorderly in uniform, conduct unbecoming an officer; willful
misappropriation of Government property*; snooting of Willie McRae, a
Negro private at the field; procuring unlawful transfers of enlisted
men and noncoms to Selfridge; accepting a vacation lodge from the
father...